Thursday, November 8, 2012

Follow Friday--Non-Original Stories

Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know -- the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

Do you mind books with similar ideas to other books? Similar concepts, backgrounds, retellings or pulled-to-publish fanfic?

*My answer is the same on both my blogs this week.*
This is kind of a loaded question because the answer is always going to be a continuum. Of course I don't like anything that's completely recycled. It's always obvious when that's what's going on. On the other hand, I actually really like fairy-tale retellings, as long as they put their own twist on things. And, if we're being honest, all stories in a given genre have similar concepts and backgrounds. I'm not big on fan fiction, but then I've never read much of it. If it was well-done and had come from a source I was really in love with, I wouldn't be completely opposed to it. But I'm definitely NOT a Fifty Shades sort of person. :D

How about YOU? Do you mind non-original stories?***If you haven't yet, don't forget to check out my Giveaway!!!***

I am not a fan-fic fan at all. I don't read any of that stuff. But I don't mind a new spin on other stories if the author twists it around a little. Some stories are so universal that it’s almost a given that they will be retold, like The Iliad and the Odyssey. The story is an archetype of the hero’s journey.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and following! I followed via GFC. Glad to meet you. Oh, and I so could not get into 50 Shades...seemed tasteless and just, well, wrong. I really don't do the whole fanfic thing.

Great points, and I agree. I'm not a big fanfic person, and all stories need to have at least some sort of original spin in order to keep my attention! Thanks for stopping by my blog, and I'm a follower on GFC now! Don't know how I forgot to do that before (was just Linky before xD)

I love fairy-tale retellings. They just make me smile. I love seeing the author's take on the story. I get a little sad when it is written in a way that you can no longer see the original tale, but for the most part I adore them.

Great answer! I agree with you. It's difficult to find something entirely original, but when the whole thing is almost identical to another book, I can tell there's something wrong going on there. Thanks for stopping by. I'm following both of your blogs :)@ Pause Time

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I'm a novelist who writes across three genres: fantasy/sci-fi, historical fiction, and crime drama. I live in northern Utah and come from a large, tight-knit family. I love to bake, read, and watch plenty of T.V. And I plan to keep writing until they nail my coffin shut. Or the Second Coming happens. You know, whichever happens first. ;D